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Jujube July 5, 2026

Lost in Moonlight

A warm yellow light called me, far away from behind the trees. I was in doubt, should I go? Is it a dream or am I awake? –Jacob Berghoef

Jujube January 25, 2026

Moonlight in the Lotus Pond

Moonlight flows like water, quietly pouring over leaves and flowers. A thin blue mist rises from the lotus pond. The leaves and blossoms seem rinsed in milk, or like a dream veiled in the lightest gauze. — Zhu Ziqing 朱自清 (1898-1948)

Jujube December 21, 2025

Bird

The moon dictates the palette. Bare branches write down the theme. Time thins to a single breath. Only a red note, a small refusal, betrays the world’s lingering warmth. –Jujube

Jujube October 26, 2025

Nocturnal Travels

I have no need, for my nocturnal travels, of ships, I have no need of trains. The moon’s above the checkerboard-like garden. The window’s open. I am set. — V. Nabokov

Jujube October 19, 2025

Night Is Young

Wine hums, lanterns flicker. Moon sneers, time falls into dust. Who stitches sorrow in the dimming light, While night is still young. - Jujube

Jujube September 28, 2025

The University Poem #30

in that townlet in the towers’ shadow the sound of life was reckless clatter, the mixture of tipsy antiquity and of the present liveliness were healthful for me: my soul’s ready to relish everything beneath the moon, the ancient and the new. — V. Nabokov

Jujube August 28, 2025

Qixi – Chinese Valentine’s Day

In the quiet pavilion, the sky is clear, the night holds its breath. Spider silk gleams, incense spirals lovers’ stars meet— I lean back, watching the moonlight drift through the paulownia shade. Time slips soft into dark. - Jujube

Jujube July 13, 2025

Moon Palace

The mist chills the music notes, wind barely stirs the robe — drenched in dew-light we stand, seeped in silence - Jujube, inspired by Zhu Dunru (1081-1159)

Jujube October 19, 2024

Gulf View

Between the striped walls of the canyon Burns a crescent of blue water, arresting, poignant: Jewel-blue, soul of opals and sapphires; Feather-blue, stain of indigo on the peacock’s breast; Flame-blue, color that hovers above the copper-saturated drift- wood in the beach-fire. And the tall white…

Jujube October 12, 2024

Rabbit in the Moonlight

Moonlight is sharp until I see A rabbit sitting quietly. Then wall and fence and tree and burr Grow soft and touch the night with fur. — by Frank Mitalsky

Jujube September 28, 2024

Country Stars

The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses and come downstairs to be kissed goodnight. She blows on a black windowpane until it’s white. Over the apple trees a great bear passes but she puts her own construction on the night. Two cities, a chemical…

Jujube July 10, 2024

Stanzas for Music

And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o’er the deep; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant’s asleep: So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer’s ocean. –…